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Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Pademba Road Court No. 1, has on Friday, March 14, 2025, remanded Santigie Kamara to prison, for allegedly killing his elder brother.
The accused, who appeared for the first time, was charged with murder, in violation of section 1 of the Offence Against the Person Act, 186, which has been abolished and replaced by provision 1(a) of the schedule of the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act 2022, Act No. 6 of 2022.
According to the Police, the accused murdered Francis Amara Kanneh on January 19, 2025, at 555 Lorry Park in Waterloo. The court clerk read the allegations and explained them to the accused, but no plea was taken.
The first prosecution witness, Maseray Nallah, said that she is a businesswoman and that she recognized the accused Santigie, with the deceased Francis as a family. She further revealed that the defendant and the deceased were brothers.
The witness recounts that on January 9, 2025, she was selling in her business with the dead sitting next to her when the defendant entered and ordered an energy drink. The witness went on to say that she asked the accused to give him money for the drink, but he said he was going home but would return to the shop. Based on this, she claimed the accused left her shop with the deceased sitting beside her still.
Maseray claimed that few minutes later, the accused entered the business dressed in his OSD uniform and approached his brother, pointing at him and claiming he had come specifically for him. The witness added that throughout the procedure, the defendant pointed his gun towards the deceased and shot him three times, causing him to fall to the ground and die.
Nallah claimed that blood was leaking from the deceased’s body, and when she shouted, people rushed to her business. She said due to the fright of what happened, some products from the shop were being stolen. She told the court that her sisters eventually came to her help and transported her to Bassa Town.
Witness Nallah revealed that she later gave testimonies at the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters. She said the deceased was eventually buried in the Kankalay Cemetery in Waterloo.
The witness was cross-examined by defense counsel W. C. Eloba. The accused was remanded in jail until March 20, 2025, for continuation.
Salone go still witness this taaay if we nor do watin pertaining killing of another human. How on Earth u ordinary human go kill u compin human, Na bcuz Salone they even favour people them way they kill other people.
U go see somebody go don kill willfully from day den jail am for 1 to two years after den lef am, so how una tink say people dem nor go tawa for kill, bcuz dem know say afterwards they will come back.
But if Salone government day kill anyway wan way kill inh compin willfully, trust dis wan for bin don stop. On no account porsen nor for just look u compin en kill am if nor to accident. So if u do then we have to do u again before ur relatives kill u as well.
From way r mature en get sense start to recall, salone 🇸🇱 still day on this.
So I don’t think if this gonna stop if we don’t do the needful.
Just look this unnecessary kill way dis OSD grap en go kill inh YONE brother, even if na serious some tin sef inh bin don do am, no need for make inh go shoot am en kill am, bcuz there is law that govern us all. So in sef deserve to be kill as well.
R rest me case here for now.
But really Salone government need for amend that part of the constitution way say way porsen kill willfully then for jail am. Me say NO NO NO NO NO, inh for be say way u kill then for kill u back.
R lef una with dis Krio parable way say
“KILL DOG 🐕 BEFORE DOG🐕 LEH DOG 🐕 KNOW SAY DIE DEA”.
KONO DESCENDANT 👍👍
May the departed soul of the late man rest in peace